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Biography

Biography

Dr Lucy-Ann Buckley has lectured in Law at NUI Galway since 1999, having previously lectured at the University of Warwick and the University of Limerick. She holds a law degree and LLM by research from University College Cork, a BCL (taught masters) from the University of Oxford, and a PhD from Trinitiy College Dublin. She is also a qualified solicitor. In 2011, she was a visiting scholar at the University of Warwick.

Research

Lucy has published widely on family law, family property, labour law and equality issues (particularly gender equality), and has a special interest in socio-legal work. Her masters thesis was on the law of sexual harassment, while her PhD focused on the issue of financial provision on marital breakdown in Ireland. Her current research focuses on gender equality issues in legal approaches to autonomy, particularly in the family context, and on disability equality issues in employment. She is especially interested in the legal recognition of caring work and contributions to family life, and in the effects of caring roles on employment participation and gender equality. She is also keenly interested in the legal status of prenuptial and other family agreements, and in constitutional aspects of family law.

Lucy currently teaches Labour Law and Equity to undergraduate and LLB students. She also teaches Equality Law and co-teaches Irish Disability Law and Policy, both at Masters level. She has previously taught a wide range of other subjects, including Comparative Property Law, Sociology of Law, Land Law, Women and the Law, and Law and Social Policy.

Administration

Lucy is currently the Programme Director of the LLM in International and Comparative Disability Law and Policy. Previous roles include the Associate Head of Teaching and Learning within the School of Law and the Programme Director of the BA in Public and Social Policy. Lucy also played a key role in establishing the Diploma in Irish for Lawyers, in association with Oifig na Gaeilge Labhartha at NUI Galway.

Supervision

Lucy welcomes inquiries from potential doctoral students in relation to family law, equality law and policy (including but not limited to gender and disability issues), labour law, property law, constitutional law, equity and trusts.

Yeni Rosdianti (PhD - "Preferential treatment arrangements in the law and its enforcement: challenges of the fulfillment of the right to work of persons with disabilities in Indonesia post-ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities". Co-supervisor: Prof. Gerard Quinn).

Research Interests

Lucy specialises in family law, particularly family property and marital breakdown; equality law and policy (particularly gender equality); issues of autonomy and capacity; the legal status of prenuptial and marital agreements; labour law; sexual harassment; and the legal recognition of caring work. She has published widely on family law, family property and equality issues, and is particularly interested in socio-legal and empirical research. She is a project leader of Gender ARC and is a member of the Gender and Public Policy Cluster at the Whitaker Institute. She is also a member of the Irish Feminist Judgments Project, an international, multi-disciplinary project which builds on the Feminist Judgments Project.

Peer Reviewed Journals

Year

Publication

(2015)

'Relational theory and choice rhetoric in the Supreme Court of Canada'
Buckley, L.A. (2015) 'Relational theory and choice rhetoric in the Supreme Court of Canada'. Canadian Journal of Family Law, 29 (2):251-308 [ARAN Link] [Details]

(2014)

'Family law and the corporate veil: accessing company assets on marital breakdown after Prest v. Petrodel Resources Ltd'
Buckley, L.A. (2014) 'Family law and the corporate veil: accessing company assets on marital breakdown after Prest v. Petrodel Resources Ltd'. Dublin University Law Journal, [ARAN Link] [Details]

'European Family Law: the Beginning of the End for Proper Provision?'
Buckley, L.A. (2012) 'European Family Law: the Beginning of the End for Proper Provision?'. Irish Journal Of Family Law, [ARAN Link] [Details]

Book Chapters

Conference Publications

Year

Publication

(2014)

Biennial Conference of the Association for Canadian Studies in Ireland
Buckley, L.A. (2014) Family Agreements and the Boundaries of Autonomy in the Supreme Court of Canada Biennial Conference of the Association for Canadian Studies in Ireland [Details]

(2014)

Judges, Politics and the Irish Constitution - Inaugural Law and Government Conference
Buckley, L.A. (2014) The Constitutional Family: Using Relational Autonomy as a Tool for Addressing Disadvantage Judges, Politics and the Irish Constitution - Inaugural Law and Government Conference [Details]

Gender and Women's Studies, co-hosted by Queen's University Belfast and the University of Limerick
Buckley, L.A. (1999) Harassment and the law: exploring judicial perceptions Gender and Women's Studies, co-hosted by Queen's University Belfast and the University of Limerick [Details]

Edited Books

Year

Publication

(1999)

University of Limerick Law Review, volume 1.
O'Keeffe, S., and Buckley, L.A (Ed.). (1999) University of Limerick Law Review, volume 1 University of Limerick Law Review, volume 1. Limerick: University of Limerick. [Details]

Other Item

Year

Publication

(2003)

The Family Support Agency Act 2001. Irish Current Law Statutes Annotated.
Buckley, L. A. (2003) The Family Support Agency Act 2001. Irish Current Law Statutes Annotated. Other Item [ARAN Link] [Details]

(2000)

Review Article: Frances Meenan, Working Within the Law: A Practical Guide for Employers and Employees. Irish Jurist.
Buckley, L. A. (2000) Review Article: Frances Meenan, Working Within the Law: A Practical Guide for Employers and Employees. Irish Jurist. Other Item [Details]